We used Postman but it got forbidden in our org for that reason, so no more.
Can't say I really miss it. I personally prefer just using a jupyter notebook for these kinds of tasks. With a custom tool like this it becomes a dead end with the data. Maybe you want to decode it if it is on a binary format. Or you want to plot some basic stats?
This has always been my approach really. Use curl for basic stuff, use a full featured repl for deeper exploration. I use Ruby but same idea.
I never quite saw enough value in tools like postman. Usually either what you are doing is trivial enough for vanilla curl or complex enough to warrant reaching for a general purpose programming language.
I can relate to this. I've tried to use Postman and Insomnia in the past, but the UI is pretty complicated with a lot of domain specific terms.
Instead, I just hacked together a small Python library, called all the APIs from there, and pushed to Git. Everyone on my team understands it, I have 100% control, and no cloud needed.
> With a custom tool like this it becomes a dead end with the data.
Not sure if you're referring to Postman or Bruno. The biggest purported benefit of Bruno over Postman is that it saves API request collection files in simple, human-readable text files that are designed to be committed to a source control repo and easily shared, in a way that's not particularly tied to the Bruno app.
You are putting up all these hypotheticals as if all the info isn't easily available on Bruno's site, and then declare "I don't have time to watch a 15 minute video". Hint, youtube 2x and transcripts are your friend.
I didn't know about Bruno until I saw this post on HN.
Why don't you just rtfm? I'm not interested in "convincing" you, you're free to proudly declare that you refuse to read the docs, and you have an odd definition of "rant".
searching for conflicts probably (I don't know you so I might be getting wrong impression from this thread, sorry if that's the case) takes up more of your time than whatever time you save by not doing whatever you deem "inefficient time usage".
You don’t care enough to read the manual, but clearly care enough to ask a bunch of questions that could have easily been answered by yourself with a modicum of effort. The home page even has an example of the file format, is even opening the page too hard of an ask?
Did you just want people to do all the work for you to “convince” a random stranger? In what world is that reasonable?
I've always preferred Insomnia over Postman. The interface fits me better. But now they also started requiring cloud login, so maybe I'll give Bruno a try if it degrades further
But then you have to deal with this annoying “feature” of it deleting your data when it feels like it. Can’t tell you how much work I’ve lost to this bug.
I’ve just switched to using hurl. Can’t be bothered with any of this nonsense with all these GUI programs
Can't say I really miss it. I personally prefer just using a jupyter notebook for these kinds of tasks. With a custom tool like this it becomes a dead end with the data. Maybe you want to decode it if it is on a binary format. Or you want to plot some basic stats?